April 22, 2016

Added 87 images from Dagashi Kashi, 51 from GATE II, 132 from Motto To Love-ru, 124 from Musaigen no Phantom World, and 51 from To Love-ru Darkness. I also added one new animation.

That's 446 new images, about 6% of the total of 7083.

As usual, you need to force a reload or flush your cache to get the new version. There are buttons in all four corners. The lower left corner takes you to the main page. The lower right corner loads a new image immediately. The upper-right corner opens the current image in a new browser window or tab. Hovering over the upper left corner brings up an information frame most of which is to help me debug, but it contains the current version number too. And clicking the upper left corner loads a new image immediately.

April 19, 2016

Boy, is that image deceptive. Anyway, I managed to get 87 candidates out of Dagashi Kashi. And there are maybe ten or so which seem to imply that there's some yuri going on. (Of course, there isn't.)

As to Gochuumon wa etc, I'm giving up on it. Too many lolis, and even the girls who are in high school look like lolis. I'll keep the 25 grabs I already took but I'm not going to process any more of it.

UPDATE: So, on to Motto To Love-ru. I seem to remember that the first To Love-ru series was varied and clever and funny, and (in the BD version) really rather ecchi.

I have processed the clean OP and ED and eps 10-12 and gotten 67 candidates already, so at least it's fruitful. But it's in a rut. Each episode has 3 parts and most of the 9 I've looked at so far are about some girl or other thinking she has fallen for Rito. I'm getting a lot of candidates but I feel like my brain is melting. I'm not sure I can spare this many neurons.

There's even some squick: one of the nine segments was about Mikan, Rito's younger sister.

April 17, 2016

Top rotation update

So it's been quite a while since I aded material to the top rotation, and it's about time for another installment. I'm in the collecting phase right now.

I got 124 candidates from Musaigen no Phantom World, and 51 from GATE II. I'm going through the second season of Gochuumon wa Usagi Desu Ka, and I have 28 from the last five episodes (I go through them backwards).

That one is a disappointment so far. The only image of Rize with a gun I've collected so far is from the OP, and there hasn't been a swimsuit episode yet. (The first season had a really good one.)

I wanted to plunder Dagashi Kashi but the version I downloaded was hardsubbed. This evening I downloaded raws for the whole series, so that comes after Gochuumon etc.

I'm also going to make a try at the second and third To Love Ru series plus its OVA, but I'm not promising anything.

Just to review: the button in the upper right corner opens the current image in a new tab or window. The button in the lower right loads a new image. The button in the lower left switches to the main Chizumatic page. If you hover over the button in the upper left it shows a bunch of debug information I need sometimes. Clicking it loads a new image.

December 22, 2015

The alltime best referer

After more than 10 years, the amount of traffic USS Clueless gets is very much attenuated. Which isn't surprising and is actually welcome, because when the Qube finally dies I probably won't replace it. (No suggestions, please.)

So the majority of my traffic these days is actually SEO, mostly from the former Soviet bloc. Here's one of the best:

As is commonly the case, this one came from Ukraine. Somehow or other a lot of people in Ukraine are involved in feeding bogus refers to various servers (like mine) presumably because they, or their customers, think it will increase their Google ranking (or that of other search engines). In my case it doesn't work because my referer log isn't available on a public web page, so the search engine spiders never see it.

Nonetheless, it would be hilarious if it weren't so infuriating to see so much effort going for such a small return, especially among those who are blithering incompetents.

I'm not sure if the last two will end up being worth processing, or whether I can get through them without losing my lunch. I remember at least one of the zodiac members (I think it was the sheep) was nicely shapely. But a lot of each episode was rendered and there was a potato-kun in a lot of it. I only watched like two episodes before I dropped it, back then. So there's no telling.

Shoukugeki no Souma was a miserably stupid show IMHO, but there are at least two girls who are awesome looking.

Hakone-chan will have a few images worth plundering but it isn't going to be hugely fruitful.

Shinmai Maou no Testament BURST is a problem because the best fan service was in the plentiful orgy scenes and it's too explicit to use here. But I'm sure I can come up with at least a hundred candidates from it.

Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry really sucked, and I dropped it about ep 4. But even in the episodes I did watch there was plenty of plunder material, so I'm sure it will make a healthy contribution. (I had the Horriblesubs version but it turned out to be hardsubbed, making it worthless to me. Right now I'm downloading an AT-X raw, which should be more useful for plunder.)

I think I'm going to skip 35th Test Platoon. And I'm sure that Shomin Sample could make a huge contribution but I'm not sure if I'm capable of processing it without going nuts.

I might end up doing Hackadoll; I haven't decided yet.

But even with the ones I do plan to plunder I'm sure I can come up with a big increase. It's currently 6089 images and I'm hoping for at least 500 more. No promises, of course.

UPDATE: In case you're curious, the picture is from Classroom Crisis. There was one beach episode. But most of what I got from that was wrench wenches working on stuff -- which is pretty cool, too.

UPDATE: Rakugai Kishi no Cavalry was good for 78 candidates but I'll probably prune about 10 of them.

Maybe I underestimated this series. As I usually do for this, I'm working through the episodes in reverse order. One thing that's kind of cool is the character Megumi and her monkfish curry (say what?).

But I just watched episode 18 (Sumire Market Karaage Rolls) and it was very charming. Also, the male lead isn't as poisonous as I originally thought. In the few episodes at the beginning that I watched, he seemed unreasonably arrogant. That has cooled and now he just come off as confident -- which isn't the same thing.

I do wonder whether all the different kinds of combinations of spices and herbs and ingredients actually would work as well as they say. Is the author just pulling things out of his ear, or are these real things?

5Is the author just pulling things out of his ear, or are these real things?

They're real, and they're fabulous!

(ahem)

I've recognized a number of things in the show from stuff Momzerduck, a pretty fair hand in the kitchen herself, made... not the same dishes, but combinations... and yeah, a lot of it IS real. And, like I mentioned over at The Pond, the manga included a number of recipes.

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Off topic but I think related to your past expertise:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/hydrostor-launches-compressed-air-power-storage-system-off-toronto-island/article27306527/

I figured I'd ask someone who might know: why does it make economic sense to compress air at the bottom of a lake rather than some normal method? Does this seem like a good idea or some kind of scam?

The reason for putting the tanks at the bottom of a lake is so that external pressure of the water takes up some of the load for the tank to cope with the internal air pressure.

Can it work? No question, it could. With most of these systems that isn't really the issue. The issue is: could it be scaled up enough to make a real difference? And as to that I have my doubts.

Is it a scam? Almost certainly. The way you can tell is that they talk about how much power (in megawatts) it can provide when running but never talk about how much energy (in giga-joules or kilowatt-hours) it can store.

The cost of commercial systems would range from about $15-million for a five-MW system to about $200-million for a 100-MW system.

100 MW is fine -- but how long can it run at the power level before the energy is exhausted? What if it only lasts five minutes?

November 07, 2015

I am being spammed, for the first time since I required logins. This particular vermin has gotten himself an account here. And I can't figure out how to ban him.

I've already cleaned up here three times and I'm sure there will be more.

So until Pixy waves the magic wand and destroys his account, I'll be engaging in combat here. The reason I'm posting this is that it's entirely possible I'll fuck up when deleting the spams and will bag a legitimate comment from one of you.

If so, please forgive me. It won't be because I hate you and want you to go away. It'll be because I'm stupid and careless.

UPDATE: Crisis over.

UPDATE: Apparently not; the war continues. I wonder if the vermin has an unexpired cookie, even if his account has been cancelled, and thus still looks like he's logged in?

UPDATE: No further attacks. I think that was just the corpse twitching.

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The names being used for the messages were all different but they were all the same account. I don't think anything got "cracked"; I think some human signed up here and then loaded his spambot with the appropriate information.